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Name: GEORGE HARRIS
Type: Trawler
Launched: 20/09/1918
Completed: 12/12/1918
Builder: Hepple & Co Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 649
Dimensions: 278grt, 124nrt, 124.6 x 23.4 x 12.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (12.5, 21 & 35 x 26ins), 87rhp
Engines by: Belliss & Morcom Ltd, Birmingham
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1920: 144569)
History:
12/12/1918 Admiralty
1920 AM Jeevanjee, Bombay; renamed KARACHI
1925 National SS Co Ltd, Bombay; renamed LAXMI
1925 R Assaria & Co, Bombay
1937 Hindustan SS Co Ltd, Bombay
1946 Shri Ambica Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Bombay
02/1955 Broken up
Comments: A Castle Class Naval Trawler, armed with 1 x 12pdr gun
1920: Converted to a cargo ship
02/1955: Broken up at Bombay by United Iron Co